Ten minutes into the second half, senior forward Akere Tambi dribbled two Braintree defenders into knots and drilled a shot into the center of the goal.

Senior forward Mike Lynch put the game away with a flashy goal at the 12:44 mark, navigating around a frantic Braintree defense to score at point-blank range.

The victory puts Weymouth at 11-1-3 in the Bay State Conference Carey Division (14-1-3 overall) and one point behind division leader Needham.

The Wildcats’ hopes of a division title were all but dashed when they fell to Needham, 1-0, on the road on Oct. 16.

Needham defeated Newton North, 3-0, on Tuesday to improve to 12-1-2 in the BSC (13-1-3 overall), and Weymouth has one more league game to play against Natick (9-5-2, 9-4-2) on Thursday. Needham finishes at home against Dedham Thursday.

“Anything can happen day-in-day-out in this league,” said Weymouth coach Bill McEachern after Tuesday’s win, “but it’d take a lot to get past Needham.”

Still, Weymouth is in line to earn the highest seeding it’s had in the tournament since the 2007 squad (seventh seed) defeated No. 4 Brockton, 1-0, in the South Sectional final. That team eventually fell to North champion Framingham, 2-1, on penalty kicks in the EMass final.

McEachern credits the leadership of his 11 seniors for the Wildcats’ success this season and said he hopes their deep postseason experience will benefit the team in another tournament run.

Weymouth has appeared as a No. 10 seed or higher in each South Sectional bracket since its title run five years ago.

“We do have a veteran team. We do have great senior leadership. So the hope is that you have success, knowing that you have players coming back,” McEachern said.

At the start of the season, Braintree looked to be in the mix for the Carey Division title. The Wamps exploded to a 5-0 start, led by sophomore forward Brendan Gawron, who netted 10 of the team’s 12 goals during that span.

Since then, however, Gawron, hampered by injuries, has managed only one goal. The forward will likely sit for the rest of the season, having suffered a mild concussion during the first half of last Thursday’s 4-1 loss to Needham.

The team has scored only six goals in the 12 games since its sizzling start, eking out just two more wins.

Now the Wamps (7-7-3, 7-7-1) must gather three points in their final three games to earn a tournament berth.

“We’re in a little bit of a rut right now,” said coach Gary Burke. “The teams we started 5-0 against, we should have been 5-0. Now we’re playing the Needhams, the Weymouths – the kind of teams we’ll see in the tournament.”

Burke said they’ll look to senior forward Andrew Higgins to pick up the offensive slack left by the injured Gawron. But the Wamps’ biggest problem, Burke insisted, has been their in-game consistency, as evidenced on Tuesday.

“We had our moments that we played with (Weymouth), but they were a better team tonight,” he said. “But we can be a good team, too. We showed it in minutes, but not consistently. And you’ve got to play 80 minutes against teams like Weymouth. They’re just too good to be taking time off.”